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The media debate about child poverty in Sweden reached a new form of intensity in the spring of 2011. Various claims were made about whether or not child poverty was to be considered a matter of importance, due to its relative nature. My interest in how social problems are constructed made me choose to focus on this debate in my essay. The aim of this study was to, with a social constructionist ap

The aim of this study was to look further in to how adolescents perceived their primary schools sexual education and other sources of information on the matter. We wanted to find out how they valued and choose between the different kinds of sources they encountered. We also wanted to find out if there were any differences or similarities in how boys and girls searched for information. We used a qu

Med utgångspunkt i en flexibel arbetsmiljö med krav på kreativitet, syftade studien till att undersöka sambandet mellan skattat kreativt ledarskap och upplevt välbefinnande sett ur medarbetarnas perspektiv. Syftet var även att undersöka sambandet mellan kreativt ledarskap och kreativ organisation, samt hur mycket av medarbetarnas välbefinnande som kan tillskrivas kreativt ledarskap och kreativ orgBased on a flexible work environment with demands for creativity, the purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation between estimated creative leadership and subjective well-being among the employees. The purpose was also to examine the correlation between creative leadership and creative organization, and how well these variables can be used to predict employee well-being. Furthermore,

The tradeoff between risk and return is a topic that most investors consider carefully before an investment decision is made. Markowitz’s pioneer work on portfolio selection using the mean-variance framework has entailed a great extent of research in this field. One research is the Sharpe ratio, which is a measure of a financial performance using variance as a risk measure. The shortcoming of vari

The study centers on the work of various filmmakers that made science fiction films in the countries of the Soviet Union, the Weimar Germany and the United States of America during the interwar years. Among these are for example films like Aelita, Metropolis and Flash Gordon. Recurring themes in these movies are of such nature as space exploration and alien encounters as well as depiction of futur

This qualitative study focus on the transfer of knowledge between the university and workplace, what the student brings from the education that is useful in the career. The gathered information consists of six depth interviews and the guidelines that social workers have to follow. We approach the area by looking into three different subjects – policies, discretion and education. To analyze the dat

This analysis explores the seemingly paradoxical and fairly common phenomenon occurring in films where underachieving slacker characters are portrayed as good role-models giving advice to ambitious protagonists aspiring success. By juxtaposing 15 diverse films in which a slacker helps the protagonist, observations of similarities and explications concludes this investigation to four categories con

The thesis investigates the Danish approach to sexual rights in development through the national development agency’s (DANIDA) strategy for sexual and reproductive rights (SRHR) and a small side project sponsored by Danida on LGBT rights in the global south. In doing so, the thesis utilizes post-colonial and post-structural perspectives of among others Chantal Mouffe and Homi K. Bhabha to investig

Many places in Sweden contain contaminated soils which came to existence after the industrialization. Since we lack knowledge about where there are contaminants and what they are composed of the work to examine and chart up hazards is important. The purpose of this degree project has been to perform risk assessments on whether or not any contaminations are present in the soil at six properties in

Chemicals exist ubiquitously around us in the food we eat, in the clothes we wear and in the buildings where we live. Due to the input of chemicals in building materials, the materials constitute a risk and can damage human health and the environment. A non-toxic environment is one of three prioritized areas in the environmental work in Norrköping municipality. The overall ambition is to reduce us

In Sweden 16 national goals have been elaborated to aim for an environmentally sustainable society. These goals should not only be implemented at a national level but also at the regional and community level. In Lund 13 documents have been developed, for 13 of the 16 national goals describing the environmental state in Lund associated to the goal in question. These documents will lead to local env

The Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) is a tool for measuring the wellbeing of an economy. The question of how to include the use of renewable energy sources is important when estimating the GPI for an economy highly dependent on renewable energy like Iceland. An analysis of GPI estimations showed that the use of renewable energy sources is reflected by the subtraction of the use of non-renewable o

Användning av sociala medier har ökat explosionsartat bland privata internetanvändare de senaste åren. Allt fler företag bestämmer sig för att ansluta till de olika sociala nätverken, med eller utan en tydlig strategi. Studien belyser flera faktorer som etablerade företag har uppmärksammat vid införande och hanteringen av sitt användande i sociala medier, och som kan fungera som en vägledning för

This paper was written in an attempt to study a less researched area of Swedish development aid and its effort to help build institutions in developing countries. Our purpose is to examine to which extent the practice of “twinning” - exchange projects between equivalent or similar government agencies in different countries - can lead to institutional development. We have interviewed five Swedish a

The purpose of this paper was to examine how risks of cannabis use may be understood in the context of a discussion forum on the internet. The study was based on a sample of 33 forum discussions about the risks of cannabis use, selected with the search in the Flashback webpage. Four approaches to risk were identified to be central in the discussions about cannabis: downplaying the risk, paying at

The purpose of this study has been to analyze the social services' information texts to see what pattern emerge from these texts, and how this relates to power. Users of social services in Sweden receive a wide array of information texts from the social welfare offices. Despite several efforts from the Swedish government to make the language in these text more simple they still come across as

Är det möjligt att påverka människors moral genom att be dem uppmärksamma en situation i sin helhet eller i detalj? Med utgångspunkt i Construal Level Theory och GLOMOsys utfördes en undersökning på 113 studenter vid Lunds universitet och Malmö Högskola. Efter en abstraktionsmanipulation, en så kallad Navon task, ombads deltagarna skatta scenarier där personer begår moraliskt tvivelaktiga handling